Imgur announces a massive hacking of 1.7 million accounts

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One of the most po[CENSORED]r image hosting services on the Internet, Imgur, has announced that in 2014 they suffered an attack where 1.7 million of their accounts were compromised, with sensitive information such as email and passwords. The company has already announced to all its users, by email, urging them to change their passwords and resetting those that have been affected.

The theft of Imgur accounts affects 1.7 million records, a small part if we compare it with the more than 150 million registered accounts in this hosting service. The only information stolen from these accounts has been the email and the password, since Imgur does not ask for any further details in the records.

The news of the hack to Imgur came first to Troy Hunt, responsible for the page 'Have I Been Pwned', who did not hesitate to report the fact to the affected company itself, which took action a few hours after the warning. The company has informed all its users by sending an email and also on their own social networks, urging them to change their passwords.

You must change the imgur password as you have been told, but also locate what other services use these same credentials to change them as well. At the time of the hacking, Imgur made use of the encryption algorithm SHA-256 that has proved to be unsafe, although in 2016 they updated to 'bcrypt', with what supposedly recent records seem to have greater security.